# crypt()ic problem

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Thu, 13 Jun 1996 08:04:13 PDT

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    > Okay; so, where is this documented?  What are SunOS, Linux, and OSF1
    > incompatible with?  What is it that makes this correct and other
    > methods not?

    I have yet to see a single UNIX system where this fails; this is
    documented -- believe it or not -- in the documentation for Perl!  The
    two-character deal is simply a result of a very poorly written manpage
    which has been inherited between the Unices.

    What makes it correct is that it works, even for systems who have a
    different salting scheme, such as FreeBSD.

    	-hpa

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